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PopAI, short for Popular Artificial Intelligence, is a magazine dedicated to artificial intelligence. The readership of PopAI includes all literate readers who are interested in AI. Since artificial intelligence also requires....

According to the definition of Oxford Languages, " is a system of ideas and ideals, especially one which forms the basis of economical or political theory and policy."...

Consider many retinal images of different views of all practical scenes in which there is a stop sign that projects onto your retina in different angles...

Think of a situation when you are preparing for an exam. One student learns the process of solving problems step by step, while another....

What is M3D VLSI? Traditional chips are built in flat layers — Like a city made up of one-story houses. But real brains aren’t flat...

To avoid Post-Selection, machines must conduct conscious learning which requires brain-size neural networks. However, 2D....

Have you heard of the so-called “Great Leap Forward” in China? The entry of “Great Leap Forward” on Wikipedia wrote....

When you ask ChatGPT a question, it often replies even when it’s wrong...

If you're a high school student dreaming of building the next breakthrough in artificial intelligence

In modern AI, many models look extremely accurate on paper. Papers claim that a certain neural network gets “state-of-the-art” results with very low test error. But Dr. Juyang Weng argues...

Neural networks do not intentionally exaggerate their performance, but our training and reporting practices can unintentionally make them look like skilled performers when we are really showcasing the luckiest network after the lottery has already been run...

Numbers, in machine learning often look trustworthy. A model with "95% accuracy'' seems strong, objective, and scientific. But high scores can create a validation illusion...

Consider how to imagine the architecture of many current AI systems. Almost all published AI projects have an open skull, as shown in the following figure...

Dr. Juyang Weng, a researcher at Michigan State University, has made a startling claim: many of the world's most celebrated AI breakthroughs are based on what he calls "p-hacking" or "post-selection misconduct" — essentially a form of misconduct that is widespread in the field...

PopAI, short for Popular Artificial Intelligence, is a magazine dedicated to the most recent advancements in this area. The readership of PopAI includes all readers who are interested in AI. Since artificial intelligence also requires...

According to reports, on January 3, 2026, President Donald Trump announced that the U.S. military had launched strikes across Venezuela that culminated in the capture and arrest of President Nicolás Maduro (2013–2026) and his wife, Cilia Flores...

To understand the motivation of hidden abstraction, you need to first read my paper in the previous issue of the PopAI Magazine, titled "Open Skull Invites a Human Homunculus Who Does Post-Selection". In that article, I argued that an open skull not only attracts Post-Selection misconduct but also forces a human to hardcraft internal representations...

Modern artificial intelligence is often framed as a story of clean, linear progress: better architectures, larger datasets, and higher benchmark scores. Yet behind many celebrated results lies a quieter and more troubling habit — chasing the luckiest network...

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is increasingly being used to monitor students during exams, promising fairness and prevention of cheating. However, the growing reliance on AI proctoring systems raises serious concerns about privacy and ethical boundaries...

In modern AI, many models look extremely accurate on paper. Researchers claim that a certain neural network achieves "state-of-the-art" results with very low test error. But Dr. Juyang Weng argues that many of these results hide a serious problem: a technique called Post-Selection, which gives a dangerously false sense of good performance...

When ChatGPT confidently asserts a historical event that never occurred, or a Vision Transformer detects cancer in pure noise, the reaction is often amusement — until the consequences become real. AI hallucinations (fabricated outputs) and false positives (incorrect affirmative predictions) are not harmless anomalies; they pose serious risks across critical domains...

PopAI Issue 2 investigates a major "cheat code" hiding in the world of Artificial Intelligence. Imagine a gamer who claims they beat a super hard level on their first try, but in reality, they secretly played it 500 times, lost 499 times, and only showed you the one winning video. Is that skill, or just luck? This is exactly what is happening in AI research today...